Section: US & Canada

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s national security service has released what it says are recordings of a Frenchman and a Ukrainian discussing plans for terror attacks in France, in which the Frenchman says targets would include the national tax center and a bridge. The audio recordings, posted Wednesday on YouTube by the security service, follow...

Ukraine’s national security service has released what it says are recordings of a Frenchman and a Ukrainian discussing plans for terror attacks in France, in which the Frenchman says targets would include the national tax center and a bridge. …read more Source: FOX...

Ukraine’s national security service has released an audio recording of what it says is a Frenchman discussing planned terror strikes connected to the European soccer championships …read more Source: ABC...

Britain’s Royal Navy has escorted a Russian submarine sailing toward the English Channel after locating it near British waters on Tuesday evening, the navy announced. Russia has sporadically sent ships and aircraft toward NATO allied states since the Ukraine crisis, usually without ammunition on board but also without warning states whose...

Political analysts say a vote in favor of Britain leaving the European Union would raise concerns among the former Soviet states in the Baltics and eastern Europe that are now EU members and neighbor a resurgent Russia. If British voters decide in a June 23 referendum to leave the EU, a so-called “Brexit,” former Soviet states...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, recently said that the Soviet Union preserved Russia’s Christian morality – a claim that raised more than a few eyebrows. Omitting any mention of the Soviet government’s mass persecution of religious institutions, Kirill’s words appeared to some as an attempt to...

In a sign of the growing frustration amid companies across Europe to get back to business as usual, the French Senate on Wednesday was due to vote on a resolution urging the government to lift economic sanctions on Russia. …read more Source: FOX...

Ukraine’s LGBT march organizers have invited pilot-turned-member-of-parliament Nadiya Savchenko to this year’s Kiev Pride, Russian news agency NSN reports. Savchenko is widely admired in Ukraine after she was captured while fighting separatists in eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 and spent nearly two years in Russian captivity....

(JTA) — A German-funded pilot program for protecting Eastern European Jewish cemeteries has helped preserve at least 70 graveyards since 2015, the effort’s initiators told Council of Europe delegates. The briefing Wednesday in Strasbourg about the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, or ESJF, came two years after its inception with an...